FREEZING DISPUTE.
ONE COMPANY RESUMING. SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE. MEN TO START TO-DAY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE. Thursday. A conference to-day between the directors of the Poverty Bay Farmers' Meat Company and the representatives of their employees arrived at a settlement of the freezing works dispute as it affects the company, and the men will return t-o work to-morrow. The matter was amicably discussed, and the terms of settlement are mutually satisfactory. The company conceded the men's request that the minimum the lowest-paid men should receive should be Is 9d and 6d bonus. In another section, where 2s 6d was asked, 2s 5d was fixed. Pieceworkers agreed to an 18 per cent, bonus. The rates are retrospective to December 1. and the agreement stands until August 31. 1921. The other local freezing companies are not affected by the agreement, which moans that about 120 men will start tomorrow morning at the Poverty Bay Company's works at Waipaoa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17662, 24 December 1920, Page 6
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